SCAT By Carl Hiaasen

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Carl Hiaasen is the author of SCAT, a book about 2 kids: Nick and Marta and their journey. Their biology teacher Mrs. Starch has went absent after a surprising field trip fire and they search all around until they find out a greater problem: an illegal scam from an oil company and an endangered baby panther on the edge of death. In the book, the theme “Don’t judge someone until you know them well” appears the most often and is the main theme of the story.
In the beginning of the story, Twilly is found inside Mrs. Starch’s home looking around. “By now they could hear the cadence of human breathing outside the steamer trunk - whoever was in the house, man or woman, was standing only a few feet away.” Page 140. Twilly was the man standing a few

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